A husband read an article to his wife about how many words women use a day… 30,000 to a man’s 15,000. The wife replied, “The reason has to be because we have to repeat everything to men… The husband then turned to his wife and asked, “What?”

“proposing that we divorce income from work and give each citizen a guaranteed paycheck, which sounds like the kind of lunatic notion that’ll be considered a basic human right in about a century, like abolition, universal suffrage and eight-hour workdays. The Puritans turned work into a virtue, evidently forgetting that God invented it as a punishment.”

I have asked, in a cashless society place such as those in StarTrek, why do people work at some of the jobs they have? Really, would Barklay really have been working in the position he had if he had a choice? What about the Picard’s family, or other farm workers that are highly labour intensive? I’m not saying some people wouldn’t be happy in such jobs, I’m just saying some people would rethink what they are doing with their lives if they didn’t have to work at the job they do and then where would society be without the sewer workers, waitresses, etc in the world. (yes, I know it sounds a bit like Hitchhiker’s )

Pfft.
I was just hearing a discussion today of how “physics” in a black hole, at the quantum level, does not behave (theoretically) like it should. Or at least like it does here on earth.

So … the article’s premise is that WE don’t currently understand all the physics of the universe (and certainly not the sort of physics needed for traveling great distances in manageable time frames)and there-for no OTHER sentient life in the universe could have possibly figured it out.
Seems a little “self-important” to me.

So, I was trying to make a better effort to be a good Goodreads member and get my library updated. I found that they even have a good deal of podiobooks in their listing. Spherical Tomi, Spherical Tomi, Spherical Tomi….

So, I went scrolling through podiobooks.com to try to remember a few titles. They’ve added quite a bit to their collection. Some are….interesting.

So it looks like we’re getting closer to the release of that Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences anthology, featuring lots of authors plus me! My story is called “The Clockwork Samurai”, and it’s a sequel to “Night’s Plutonian Shore”, the story I did for the first Ministry anth.

An news article from 2006 that describes Republican congressional efforts to pass law that would make(then)President Bush’s warrentless evesdropping of US citizens (which the White House was already allowing the NSA to do) legal.

Possibly the best take I’ve ever seen on this subject. “And when he continues flapping his stupid richlips and says that by the time he’s fed his family, he only has $400k left, my eyes roll so hard up into my head I can visually inspect my own soul.”

An elderly couple were on a cruise and it was really stormy. They were standing on the back of the ship watching the moon, when a wave came up and washed the old man overboard. They searched for days and couldn’t find him. So the captain sent the old woman back to shore with the promise that he would notify her as soon as they found something. Three weeks went by and finally the old woman got a fax from the ship. It read: “Ma’am, sorry to inform you, we found your husband dead at the bottom of the ocean. We hauled him up to the deck and attached to his back end was an oyster and inside the oyster was a pearl worth $50,000….please advise.” The old woman faxed back: “Send me the pearl and re-bait the trap.”

Three sons left home, went out on their own and prospered. Getting back together, they discussed the gifts they were able to give their elderly mother.The first said, “I built a big house for our mother.” The second said, “I sent her a Mercedes with a driver.” The third smiled and said, “I’ve got you both beat. Remember how mom enjoyed reading the Bible? And you know she can’t see very well. I sent her a remarkable parrot that recites the entire Bible. It took elders in the church 12 years to teach him. He’s one of a kind. Mama just has to name the chapter and verse, and the parrot recites it.”Soon thereafter, mom sent out her letters of thanks. “Milton,” she wrote one son, “the house you built is so huge. I live in only one room, but I have to clean the whole house.””Gerald,” she wrote to another, “I am too old to travel. I stay most of the time at home, so I rarely use the Mercedes. And the driver is so rude!””Dearest Donald,” she wrote to her third son, “you have the good sense to know what your mother likes. The chicken was delicious.”

I thought Repo! The Genetic Opera was the Rocky Horror of the 2000s. Guess it’s a hotly contended title. The Room just sucked (and not in a good way). Repo! (although I can’t stand it) has the whole fan base that performs the show on stage in front of theater showings of the movie (bunch of copy cats).

A dietitian was once addressing a large audience in Chicago. “The material we put into our stomachs is enough to have killed most of us sitting here, years ago.Red meat is awful. Soft drinks erode your stomach lining. Chinese food is loaded with MSG. Vegetables can be disastrous, and none of us realizes the long-term harm caused by the germs in our drinking water.But there is one thing that is the most dangerous of all and we all have, or will, eat it. Can anyone here tell me what food it is that causes the most grief and suffering for years after eating it?”A 75-year-old man in the front row stood up and said, “Wedding cake”

I wanted something so simple. Just wanted to put in a 3TB hard drive. Now I find that between my old motherboard and Windows, I am forced with the choice of buying a new motherboard/chipset or loosing 750GB off the hard drive because the system will only recognize 2.2TB max. So much wasted time on this. Seagate has software that will fix the problem, but only if you have a Seagate drive. Toshiba (the drive I have) doesn’t have squat. This is getting really frustrating. Will have a nice long chat with the IT guy at work tomorrow to figure out my options.

My Oktoberfest type beers have been that way as well. A fine example of the alchemy that is brewing. You mix all this food source together and then throw yeast into it to eat the sugars and poop out alcohol and it all bubbles and churns together to form something wonderful Dave!

At the first racking my seasonal beer is still “meh” and making you wonder if you screwed up. Then when you finally get to bottling you start to think “hey! we might have something here!”

I have also noticed with these that once they reach the point where the instruction says “Now it is ready” they only have a bout 2 weeks of full glory. They never get “bad” but after a month you find that they have lost that loving feeling. So resist the temptation to hide this stuff back for “later on” and when it is “ready” throw a party and make all your friends come and drink it up!

Watch it one time just looking at the steering wheel work… and keep in mind I stayed on the throttle as I worked through there AND didn’t hit a single cone … until the VERY last one at the finish line!

Unfortunately, as cool as the save was, you don’t go as fast with the car sideways as you do pointed the right way round. Lost a good 4 seconds with all that silly drifting about.

When I saw Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio’s names in the writing credits, I went, “Oh, yeah. Now that I think of it, their fingerprints were all over this script. They really like their evil capitalists as antagonists.” (The Lone Ranger had this element in common with the second and third Pirates of the Caribbean movies, which they also wrote.)

In today’s “you’re old” news (Ed’s favorite!):
George Hamilton is 74.
Twenty-five years ago today, Wayne Gretzky was traded from Edmonton to L.A.
And 2,043 years ago today, Cleopatra died by asp bite venom – – for you real old-timers out there.